Evaluation of the AHRQ patient safety initiative: synthesis of findings.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To present overall findings from the 4-year evaluation of the national patient safety initiative operated by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).

Data sources

Interviews with AHRQ staff, grantees, and other patient safety stakeholders; published materials; and internal AHRQ documents.

Study design

The evaluation was structured to address a system framework of five components involved in improving safety. The initiative's contributions to improving each system component were assessed qualitatively, comparing results from three separate analyses—AHRQ's achievement of its patient safety goals, our own assessment of the initiative's activities, and independent stakeholder ratings of AHRQ's contributions.

Findings and conclusions

AHRQ has

SUBMITTER: Farley DO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2677039 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature